An evil laugh is a stock megalomaniacal laugh by a villain in fiction. In comic books, where supervillains utter such laughs, it is variously rendered as mwahaha, muhuhahaha, muwhahaha, fwahahahahahaha, or booWAHAHA.. (Compare Ho ho ho.) These words are also commonly used on internet Blogs, BBSes, and games. There, they are generally used when some form of victory is attained, or to indicate superiority over someone else. The words are often used as either interjections or nouns. Look up megalomania in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Laughing Child Laughter is the biological reaction of humans to moments or occasions of humor: an outward expression of amusement. ... One popular concept of the villain, meant to mimic the purposely distinctive visage of villains from silent films of the early 20th century. ... Fiction (from the Latin fingere, to form, create) is storytelling of imagined events and stands in contrast to non-fiction, which makes factual claims about reality. ... Doctor Doom, one of the most archetypal supervillains and his arch-enemies The Fantastic Four (in background). ... Ho ho ho is the convention in English and other languages to write the way Santa Claus laughs. ... It has been suggested that Online diary be merged into this article or section. ... A bulletin board system or BBS is a computer system running software that allows users to dial into the system over a phone line and, using a terminal program, perform functions such as downloading software and data, uploading data, reading news, and exchanging messages with other users. ... Superior has various meanings: A superior is a person who has the authority to command another, as in a superior officer. See: Superior (function) In a hierarchical structure of any kind, a superior is higher in the hierarchy and thus closer to the apex than the subordinate ones. ... An interjection is a part of speech that usually has no grammatical connection to the rest of the sentence and simply expresses emotion on the part of the speaker, although most interjections have clear definitions. ...

For men it starts off as a low rumbling, in the back of the throat, slowly ascending to a loud cackle. For women, on the other hand, it begins as a hoarse scratchy sound, and then rises to a maniacal laugh- however, this could work either way. Some protagonists have been known to use an "evil" laugh, either as a product of mental instability or merely to display a feeling of significance as a villain would. Father Grigori from the video game Half-Life 2 is an example of this. [1] Father Grigori, with his Winchester rifle, Annabelle. ... Half-Life 2 (HL2) is a science fiction first-person shooter computer game and the sequel to Half-Life. ...

The Evil Overlord List notes that evil laughter often distracts the villain from important details that the hero can use to escape or prevail. The Evil Overlord List is a popular list of planned actions for a competent Evil Overlord to avoid the common and not-so-common blunders committed by preceding Evil Overlords in popular fictional works. ...

See also

• Megalomania
• Evil genius

Look up megalomania in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Ernst Stavro Blofeld in You Only Live Twice, a textbook example of an evil genius. ...

External links

• a proposal for an evil-laugh-activated hand dryer